stepped lighting setup and inverse square law (with pics)

bhursey wrote in post #15831371
I don't use Photomatrix I use nik. I try to keep mine realistic. I hate tone mapping.... See I don't over do it BTW this is 9 exposures its great except for the ghost children running to the water.

One option Photoshop offers, and I think a couple others is ghost removal.
It works amazingly well. Got rid of a car I thought I'd have to spend some time with in Photoshop.

That's one of the problems with a bracket of exposures. The 5DIII will fire them off quickly in High Speed drive mode. Its good enough for me to use hand held for a lot of stuff around the city.

This is one from a walk along the river in Chicago. All were shot with a 5 frame bracket. If I recall this was processed via Lightroom from the normal exposure frame.

dmward wrote in post #15831476
One option Photoshop offers, and I think a couple others is ghost removal.
It works amazingly well. Got rid of a car I thought I'd have to spend some time with in Photoshop.

That's one of the problems with a bracket of exposures. The 5DIII will fire them off quickly in High Speed drive mode. Its good enough for me to use hand held for a lot of stuff around the city.

This is one from a walk along the river in Chicago. All were shot with a 5 frame bracket. If I recall this was processed via Lightroom from the normal exposure frame.

Nice that's the way I like them realistic I want to make an image where people won't say look HDR.. I want to duplicate what the eye sees. Over done HDR makes me Puke. I use it to recover what would normally be lost.

Here's a link to a folio from a shoot I did awhile back. http://www.dmwfotos.co​m/folios/shadowpond/

As you can see there is some detail outside the windows. All of these were bracketed with 5 frames during the shoot. It turned out I didn't use any of the brackets since LR was able to give me what I wanted. The snow outside and overcast sky helped.

I agree completely about the desire to not look HDRy.